Kō no Morouji

Kō no Morouji was a Kamakura-period warrior of the Kō clan in Shimotsuke and the grandfather of Kō no Moronao. He succeeded his father Shigeuji as steward, or shitsuji, to the Ashikaga, serving Ashikaga Ietoki and the young Sadauji. When Ietoki committed suicide in 1284, he entrusted Morouji with his last affairs in a letter.

In 1286 Morouji issued a steward's writ concerning a Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine appointment without his lord's sleeve signature, a mark of his standing among the Ashikaga retainers. He remained steward until his death in 1301, when his son Moroshige succeeded him.